Drawing by Bay Area artist Jason Brinkerhoff. 

His solo show at Ampersand, Some Women, opens on May 29. 

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05.10.2013

Photograph by Arron McElroy.

His solo show at Ampersand, After Wake, opens on Last Thursday, February 28, 2013. 

We have also designed & published a collection of 44 photographs from McElroy’s most recent work. Also titled After Wake, the book is limited to 100 copies. 15 signed & numbered copies include one of three 5x7 inch signed photographs.

Pre-order at a reduced price of $25 from our website here. Release date is February 28.   

McElroy, who lives & works in Brooklyn, will be here for both the opening night & an artist lecture & book signing on Saturday, March 2 at Ampersand. Spread the word. 

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02.20.2013

Photograph by Aaron McElroy.

His solo show at Ampersand opens on February 28.

After Wake, a book of McElroy’s photographs designed & published by Ampersand, will also be released on that date.

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02.15.2013

Both Sides Now, our new exhibition featuring work by Harrison Freeman, opens on Last Thursday, January 31 from 6 to 10PM. Stop in, meet the artist & enjoy drinks provided by Ninkasi Brewing Co. It’s going to be a great show.

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01.20.2013

Photograph by Aaron Mcelroy.

His March exhibition at Ampersand, titled Curious Desires, will open on February 28.

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Our upcoming show features work by Harrison Freeman.

Opens at the end of January. Stay tuned.

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12.29.2012

Alexis Mackenzie
Narcissus, 2012
hand cut collage on found paper
12 x 13 3/4 in.

Our current show, Drift, which features work by Alexis & Francesca Berrini, continues through January 6, 2013. Definitely stop in & check it out if you have not already. It’s an amazing show. 

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12.27.2013

dp_3493 by Zefrey Throwell.

Type in a number here & see what you get.

Can’t tell you how excited we are for the upcoming show at Ampersand featuring work by Zefrey & Dan Gluibizzi. We’ll also be publishing a collaborative book by the artists titled Folding Space/Pressing Time.

Show opens on September 26 from 6 to 9PM. 

In the meantime, get lost in Zefrey’s website here.

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09.08.2012

Photograph by Lorena Guillen Vaschetti.

Our next show opens on Wednesday, August 29 & features work by Lorena & her mother Norma Vaschetti. Both artists will be in attendance for the opening reception from 6 to 9PM. Lorena will be signing copies of her photobook Historia, memoria y silencios, which was published near the end of 2011 by Schilt & was chosen as one of the best books of the year by PDN & Photo España 2012. Lorena’s photographs have been widely exhibited, including FotoFest, International Discoveries III
 in Houston (2011), PhotoEspaña “Best books of the year: The exhibition” (2012) & most recently at the Centro Cultural Recoleta in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In addition to the show at Ampersand, work from historia, memoria y silencios will be shown this year at El Ojo Salvaje in Paraguay, Talent Latent in Tarragona, Spain & at the Southeast Museum of Photography in January, 2013. 

More information & images here.

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08.19.2012

Corey Arnold - B-Sides

Our new exhibition opens this Wednesday, July 25 from 6 to 9PM. Titled B-sides, it features work by Corey Arnold, Raymond Meeks, Clayton Cotterell, Tatum Shaw, Alec Soth, Ron Jude, Shawn Records & Todd Hido.

Check out more information & images here.

Corey Arnold is an Alaskan commercial fisherman & photographer based out of Portland, Oregon. Recent exhibitions of his work include Fish-Work at Fecal Face Gallery (2010), Wolf Tide at Richard Heller Gallery (2012) & Fishing with My Dad 1975-1995 here at Ampersand last fall. Fishing with My Dad was published by Nazraeli Press last summer as One Picture Book #69. Arnold’s first monograph, Fish-Work Bering Sea, was  also published by Nazraeli to wide acclaim. Photographs from this series were recently shown as a solo exhibition at the Sincfala Museum in Heist, Belgium, where  his photographs were also featured in the Wonderland photo festival. His upcoming solo    show, Graveyard Point, will open at Charles A. Hartman Fine Art in October, 2012. Arnold’s B-side selects are outtakes from photography assignments in the far north of Alaska. We were drawn to the unknowns in these photographs: the light glow of a mysterious settlement, the tracks trailing away to distant vistas, the skinned animal corpses, the snow sparkle mimicking what is not seen in the icy sky above.

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07.24.2012

Tatum Shaw - B-Sides

Our new exhibition opens this Wednesday, July 25 from 6 to 9PM. Titled B-sides, it features work by Corey Arnold, Raymond Meeks, Clayton Cotterell, Tatum Shaw, Alec Soth, Ron Jude, Shawn Records & Todd Hido.

Check out more information & images here.

Tatum Shaw is a photographer & copywriter that lives & works in Portland, Oregon. His January, 2012 show at Wieden + Kennedy featured work from Etowah, a series of photographs that takes its title from the river that runs through Shaw’s hometown of Cartersville, GA. The river itself serves as a kind metaphor for a body of work that developed over time as Shaw made photographs during trips home for holidays. To coincide with the exhibition, Shaw designed & published a book of the same title. Both the book & prints from the series are available through Ampersand. Shaw’s photographs also featured in a recent group exhibition, America MMXII, at Breeze Block Gallery alongside work by Jason Kreher & Jimm Lasser. Sorting through what Shaw offered as “random shots I’ve taken over the years,” his B-sides contribution joins three shots that are striking on their own, yet together share common visual cues that seem to imply a connected narrative despite the reality of their autonomy.

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07.23.2012

Todd Hido - B-Sides

Our new exhibition opens next Wednesday, July 25 from 6 to 9PM. Titled B-Sides, it features work by Corey Arnold, Raymond Meeks, Clayton Cotterell, Tatum Shaw, Alec Soth, Ron Jude, Shawn Records & Todd Hido.

Check out more information & images here.

Todd Hido has been a longtime favorite of ours, so we are very pleased to be showing his work in the gallery. Based in the Bay Area, Hido’s photographs have been exhibited internationally & are included in numerous museum collections, including the Whitney Museum of Fine Art, Guggenheim Museum, San Francisco Museum of Fine Art & the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. His award-winning monograph titled House Hunting was published by Nazraeli Press in 2001. A longtime favorite of ours, this now highly collectible photobook serves as a cornerstone for much of what we continue to see in Hido’s work, not only in terms of the imagery itself, but also in the excellence of book design that is characteristic of all his titles. Hido’s recent notable photobook, A Road Divided, brought the viewer into environments made strange by inclement weather & the blurring effect of a foggy & rain-streaked car windshield. These atmospheric landscapes figure in his new body of work as well, which is also populated by a cast of female subjects that bring to mind “a visual pulp novel of Midwest mythology,” as Stephen Wirtz Gallery describes it. Shown as a solo exhibition titled Excerpts from Silver Meadows this past winter at Wirtz, the work will also be published by Nazraeli Press in the fall. For B-sides, Hido has selected two outtakes from this forthcoming monograph; the pairing is like a vignette edited out of the larger narrative sequence. As such, we are compelled to intently wonder at the interrelation of this seemingly forlorn woman & the frozen house in which she may or may not reside. 

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07.21.2012

The Morning After the Night Before
ink & watercolor on paper
11 3/4” x 8 3/4” in., 1927

SOLD

Take a look at more of her work here.

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06.27.2012

Last week to catch our current show featuring work by Jefferson Hayman.

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05.24.2012

Winter
Matt Hall
12 x 3 x 8 1/2 inches
found animal corpse, map, cigar box

Our new show featuring drawings & assemblages
by Matt Hall opens this Thursday, February 23 from 6 to 10PM

We have also published a book to coincide with the exhibition.

More details here.

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02.21.2012